Going to try using iTunes which I had with the 10 years younger Outlook 2003. Only issue really was all day events showed a day early on the iPHone! I thought I had to use iCloud for this version of Outlook for some daft reason, so I'll see how that goes.

At the end of the day, I would suggest perhaps giving exchange online some consideration - especially when syncing with iDevices. It does have a small monthly cost but I have found the benefits to be quite worth it for my purposes.

TwoSeven: At the end of the day, I would suggest perhaps giving exchange online some consideration - especially when syncing with iDevices. It does have a small monthly cost but I have found the benefits to be quite worth it for my purposes.

OK looking into this, does this mean I need to get a domain name to get things going, or can I use an existing gmail account?! It's a bit confusing, I'm running the MS Office 365 Small Business Premium trial at the moment. I guess I want to migrate all my contacts & calendar from what I currently have as a local copy in Outlook also, not sure if this will happen as part of a setup process.

No need to purchase a domain and sign up for Office 365 for a personal email address, I would just use Outlook.com and create a free email address there. That works great with Outlook 2013 and sync'ing to an Apple device.

Grant777: OK thanks, does this mean I can use the built in iPhone calendar or do I have to use an Office 365 app on the phone?

In exchange online - yes. Basically it will sync (I am using an iPhone 5s) mail, calendar (and will get all day events right) contacts and notes.

What I did is sign up to the Office 365 Home (not the business version)- which gave me office 2013, then I signed up to exchange online (which is part of the office 365 business). Because I have my own domain, I set it to use this rather than the default one, and I also have it bring in my email from my isp, Hotmail and gmail accounts (although replies to those are tagged as on-behalf of).

I now get my email on my phone, ipad, laptop and PC without having to mess around with syncing things, if I delete an email on one device, it is removed on the others.

On my iPhone and ipad I also have the one-note, skydrive and office 365 app.

Note: I a not sure if there are any constraints for using Office 365 home edition for business use versus the business edition version, perhaps someone else will know.

TwoSeven

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